Rogue Valley Manor

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility also received excellent government inspections recently. We awarded it one of our highest scores in that area, with an A. Inspection scores are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. The nursing rating features a host of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its high-end resume, this nursing home also was awarded a superb short-term care score, with a grade of A. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The last area we looked at is long-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of B-. While this ended up being its poorest category score, this is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the data points we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 94.8052 percent of its residents. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.